Crystal River current., 1887-06-18
MINING BREVITEs.

anu lntenlS opening up his mines
in good shape this season.
The water is being taken out of
the Black Queen shaft, and work is
expected to be started up shortly.
Mason and Ring have been tax
ing out some fine marble the last
few days from their marble claims.
Wilber Wright has completed
the assessment work on the Grass
Widow, which is upon one of the
Sheep mountain contacts.
Work on the A. G. Richmond
will soon be started up. 1t is To-
Gated at the head of Slate river and
the property Of J. o. Jordan,
Dick and Will Lloyd have fine
body Of lead ore in the Bonanza
King, and are doing considerable
work on their property this season.
VIM. Slaughter has returned to
Elko and is making preparations to
make ore shipments this season
from his mine on Galena mountain.
John Crotty is having some
claims surveyed in Crystal basin.
He has good mine up ther. that
can produce a large quantity of
lead.
The May Contact has been sold
for the sum of s55.0O0. Several
Gunnisonites have became inter-
ested in the property which is stu
ated in the Tomichi district.
Squire Beardsley and Pete Nc
Neil are hard at work these days
on the Detroit and report the prop
erty as looking way up. They have
considerable lead ore in the mine.
1t is understood that considerable
work will be done upon the Penn
sylvania lode in Paradise gulch.
The property belongs to a Chicago
company that have means to devel-
ope it.
The claims on top of Sheep
mountain can be worked in about
ten days without any trouble from
snow but considerable surface wa
ter will be encountered in deep
shafts.
Jake Goodwin will soon start up
work on the Bay State. He has
got company of st. Louis cap
italists interested in the property
which shows a splendid body of lead
ore: ,:and we would not be surprised
at hearing good reports from the
property this season.
THE BANKERS DAUGHTER.
A trail has been made up to the
Bankers Daughter from the old
trail on the south slope of Sheep
mountain by A. B. Fish, one of the
owners of the property, and he is
now at work running a drift on the
vein, which is one Of the most
promising around camp and is de-
serving of more than passing notice
as it will some day be large pro-
ducer Of lead ore that will be in de-
mand for the smelters that will un-
doubtedIy be erected this side of the
range. The vein is the largest on
Sheep mountain and is true fssure,
cutting the formation, showing an
outcrop Of galena and copper that
can be readily traced up the slope
of the mountain. It has been opened
up in several places along the vein
and mineral exposed in each open
ing. The drift that is being run at
present is the continuation Of
cave, and it is being run to get un-
der the large body Of ore that is ex-
posed on the surface. A shaft has
been sunk on this ore body about
$50 feet up the hill from the drift
to depth Of about nineteen feet,
which shows lead carbonates and
oxide of copper for width of four
teen feet, and is certainly very
aattering outlook. Assays from ore
in the shaft run from fifteen to for
ty-fve ounces in silver and over
sixty per cent. lead. 70 the east of
this vein there is also another vein
on the property that shows a body